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Architecture

Disc used as a stupa parasol (chattra) support. The carved underside consists, reading outwards, of a flat circular disc as a gynoecium in the centre, pierced for a spacer of the yaṣṭi shaft; radiating stamens; a row of centrally grooved lotus petals; another row in which the petals are plain and double-outlined;

Kind
artefact
Date
100–299 CE
Place
Jamal Garhi (34.3166, 72.0686)